Man suspected in sexual attacks near Hobby Airport

By Dale Lezon |
February 22, 2013

Police suspect that one man is responsible for two sexual assaults near the Hobby Airport in recent months.

The latest attack occurred Feb. 8 after the man approached a 28-year-old woman who was walking in the 8900 block of Airport, officials said. He asked her to go to a motel with him and she agreed. He pulled into a parking lot of an abandoned warehouse. He hit and choked her as he sexually assaulted her, police said.

She fought off the man, escaped from the car and ran. A citizen saw her partially clothed at a nearby convenience store and helped her.

Another attack

The man is also a suspect in an attack about 8:30 a.m. Dec. 31, officials said.

Officials said the man offered a woman and her friend a ride after they got off a Metro bus on Glencrest near Airport. The women accepted. The man drove one of them to a business at Airport and Monroe, where she got out of the car.

The other woman, 22, asked the man to drop her off at a business at Airport and Hansen.

Instead, the man drove her to an abandoned building in the 8900 block of the Gulf Freeway and parked. He locked the doors so the woman could not get out. Then he hit her in the face and sexually assaulted her as he choked her, police said.

The man is described as being between about 36 and 42. He is about 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighs about 180 pounds. At the time of the assaults, the man had medium-length hair, a mustache and a dark-brown complexion.

What to look for

In the latest attack he was wearing a white T-shirt and light blue jeans. In the first assault he wore a brown plaid shirt and blue jeans.

Officials said he drove a green Ford Mustang that was damaged near the driver's side tail light. Only part of the Texas license plate is known. It is BL714.